Blackberry might be attempting a very risky move soon with BBM. Recently leaked images (by TechnoBuffalo) of BBM running on and Android device seem to suggest that RIM is looking at broadening the install base of BBM to other platforms.

Vodacom recently announced that it will be throttling Blackberry BIS users who use more than 100MB per month, effectively stepping them down to 2G speeds. Needless to say – there was tremendous backlash to this decision. Twitter was abuzz, and Bandwidth Blog had massive traffic from users who wanted to […]

Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that BlackBerry App World 3.0 is now available to download for its smartphone users. The improved version allows users to access a variety of applications, new interactive games and entertainment and personalise their smartphones with fresh themes much easier than before. New features include: […]

This might just be the perfect Blackberry. Since 2008 RIM has been trying to build the â€œiPhone killerâ€, first with the Blackberry Storm and Storm 2, and recently the Torch. While the Storm was not universally liked, the Torch did a lot better because it held on to the one thing that makes a Blackberry a Blackberry â€“ the keyboard. The new 9900 models bring together the great form factor of the Bold series with a new touch enabled Blackberry OS 7 operating system. And now Vodacom has made it available in SA….

In the tablet market it is pretty tough going for anybody except Apple. What if you want a tablet that is not the same as everyone else’s? Sure you can go for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, but I can guarantee you in a year from now you will see Android tabs everywhere. Or what if you are a Blackberry fan – and there are a lot of you out there… SA customers now have another choice.

RIM today announced their new BlackBerry smartphones featuring the BlackBerryÂ® 7 Operating System (OS). The all-new BlackBerryÂ® Curveâ„¢ 9360 smartphone is an exciting addition to the popular BlackBerry Curve series.

Lets hope this can improve things for RIM. While not immediately apparent in SA, the Blackberry brand has taken a few knocks in the last few months. From slow release schedules, government privacy issues, to digruntled employees shooting off their mouths regarding RIM management, the brand has to improve its […]

I have never quite gotten the hype behind Blackberry. For one – I always believed it to be a device for suits. Nothing wrong with that, but I like my phone to be used wherever I want, and to be fun to use. And Blackberries never seemed to do that. Until now.